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Community Education, also known as Community-based education or Community learning, is education through formal and informal methods for individuals and groups in their communities to provide learning and social development work [1] Community Education aims to integrating schools and adult education institutions with their communities to help individuals and communities tackle issues through joint action and community-based learning.[1]
Interdisciplinary cooperation between schools and local apprentice programmes as well as cultural and social work are encouraged. The main aspects of Community Education include lifelong learning, integration of minorities, intergenerational solutions and "thinking global, acting local".[2][3]
This model has found many specific applications, such as language learning[4] and health education,[5]
In England, the Learning and Skills Council funds "Adult and Community Learning".[6] The Secretary of State in creating the remit of Adult and Community learning described it as a "great heritage... which developed in the 19th century, when the pioneering efforts of the community movements helped many men and women to improve their lives through the power of learning."[7] Community learning today is defined as education for non-wage-earning people aged from 16 to 65 years. Fees are not charged. It frequently includes basic skills and other content which is often non-vocational and non-accredited.[8] It provides learning opportunities particularly suitable for the inclusion of disadvantaged groups.[8] Increasingly, the missions of "adult learning" and "adult and community learning" are distinguished for funding purposes,[citation needed] adult learning is a more generic category.[8]
A philosophical base for developing Community Education programs is provided through the five components of the Wisconsin Model of Community Education. The model provides a process framework for local school districts to implement or strengthen community education.[9] A set of Community Education Principles was developed by Larry Horyna and Larry Decker for the National Coalition for Community Education in 1991 [10] These include:
1.Self-determination: Local people are in the best position to identify community needs and wants. Parents, as children's first and most important teachers, have both a right and a responsibility to be involved in their children's education.
2.Self-help: People are best served when their capacity to help themselves is encouraged and enhanced. When people assume ever-increasing responsibility for their own well being, they acquire independence rather than dependence.
3.Leadership Development: The identification, development, and use of the leadership capacities of local citizens are prerequisites for ongoing self-help and community improvement efforts.
4.Localization: Services, programs, events, and other community involvement opportunities that are brought closest to where people live have the greatest potential for a high level of public participation. Whenever possible, these activities should be decentralized to locations of easy public access.
5.Integrated Delivery of Services: Organizations and agencies that operate for the public good can use their limited resources, meet their own goals, and better serve the public by establishing close working relationships with other organizations and agencies with related purposes.
6.Maximum Use of Resources: The physical, financial, and human resources of every community should be interconnected and used to their fullest if the diverse needs and interests of the community are to be met.
7.Inclusiveness: The segregation or isolation of people by age, income, sex, race, ethnicity, religion, or other factors inhibits the full development of the community. Community programs, activities, and services, should involve the broadest possible cross section of community residents.
8.Responsiveness: Public institutions have a responsibility to develop programs and services that respond to the continually changing needs and interests of the their constituents.
9.Lifelong Learning: Learning begins are birth and continues until death. Formal and informal learning opportunities should be available to residents of all ages in a wide variety of community settings.
[edit] References
^ a b Working and Learning Together to Build Stronger Communities, Scottish Governemnt Guidance for Community Learning and Development, 2004 seen at Community Learning and Development, Scotish Government Website.
^ COMED e.V., http://www.community-education.de/, retrieved 2007-09-10
^ Nancy Jennings, et al. (November 2005). "Place-Based Education in the Standards-Based Reform Era: Conflict or Complement?" ([dead link] – Scholar search). American Journal of Education 112. http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/AJE/journal/issues/v112n1/112103/112103.html. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
^ "Heritage Language Instruction in the United States: A Time for Renewal". Bilingual Research Journal 24 (4). http://brj.asu.edu/v244/articles/art1.html. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
^ Mary A. Garza, et al. (November 2005). A Culturally Targeted Intervention to Promote Breast Cancer Screening Among Low-Income Women in East Baltimore, Maryland. H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute. http://www.moffitt.org/moffittapps/ccj//v12s5/pdf/34.pdf. Retrieved 2007-09-11.
^ Learning and Skills Council National Office, Certification of the use of funds: funding of adult and community learning in Local Authorities for 2005/06, 16 January 2007
^ The Learning and Skills Council Remit Letter from the Secretary of State for Education and Employment, DfEE, November 2000. Seen in [1]
^ a b c The National Literacy Trust, The Learning and Skills Council and Learning Partnerships, see: August 24 2008
^ Wisconsin's Components of Community Education, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
^ Community Education Principles, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction
[edit] External links
Community Education Principles, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, http://dpi.state.wi.us/fscp/ceprin.html, retrieved 2008-05-08
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community education

com·mu·ni·ty ed·u·ca·tion
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U.K. locally funded education and recreation: educational and recreational programs provided by local governments for people in their communities